Ormond Butler

Ormond Hook Butler

• Bats Unknown, Throws Unknown

• Born November 18, 1854 in West Virginia USA
• Died September 12, 1915 in Baltimore, MD USA

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Biographical Information

Ormond Butler managed in the majors one year, was a major league umpire and also played baseball professionally. However, he was most famous for his work in the theater.

Butler's obituary in the New York Times issue of September 15, 1915, indicates that he "was widely known for years in the theatrical profession". The article stated he had played professional baseball (but didn't specify where) and also managed at Pittsburgh and Columbus. He began his theatrical career at the Ford's Opera House in Baltimore, MD and later managed a team of German comedians and Buffalo Bill Cody as well as being business manager of the New York Opera Company. He died "in a sanitarium in Baltimore, from paralysis, in his sixty-first year".

As an umpire, he worked in the American Association in 1883 and 1886.

He is listed as being born in West Virginia in 1854, although that state was not created until the Civil War.

Preceded by Al Pratt

Pittsburgh Alleghenys Manager 1883

Succeeded by Joe Battin

Related Sites

• Ormond Butler on Retrosheet.org
• SABR's Pictorial Committee says it has a picture of Butler: Pictorial Committee

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